Teoresi Group is an international engineering company that supports businesses in developing projects using cutting-edge technologies: from electric and autonomous vehicles to AI applied to medical diagnostics. With strong global expertise in engineering and machine learning, we focus on developing the intelligence layer that enables devices to operate autonomously and efficiently.
Teoresi Group has been paying close attention to new technologies since 1987. So when open source software became impossible to ignore in products, in client deliverables, and in every layer of the engineering stack, the question was never whether to engage with it, but how to do so responsibly.
The honest answer to “why now?” is that the need became impossible to defer. In recent years, Teoresi’s work has shifted significantly toward turnkey projects. That shift changes the governance equation entirely. A service provider can rely on the client’s open source policies. A solution provider cannot. You need your own house in order.
“If you do not have governance, you carry all the risks we have been describing: legal exposure, security gaps, and compliance failures. The risk does not disappear because you did not look for it.” — Alberto Bertone, Teoresi Group FOSS Manager
A working group was established, including technical leads, legal experts, and project managers. The result, published by the end of 2025, was a Group-wide open source policy and procedure. All Teoresi Group companies are covered. The process runs from pre-sales through to delivery. Licence constraints are evaluated before commitments are made, codebases are scanned and inventoried during development, and a named FOSS Manager is accountable for the programme’s integrity across projects.
Training is already underway across the organisation. The goal is straightforward: every person who works with third-party code understands what that code requires of them, and why. Compliance that rests on understanding is durable. Compliance that rests only on instruction is not.
Teoresi has also declared its openness to contributing back to open source. This is a formal commitment under ISO/IEC 5230, the international standard with which the programme is aligned. Research projects and innovation initiatives offer natural pathways. Open source is not something Teoresi simply consumes; it is something the company intends to be a responsible part of.
The open source community made the tools we build on available to everyone. Managing that inheritance with care is not just a regulatory obligation. It is a professional one.
